Johann Georg Spangenberg

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Johann Georg Spangenberg (born January 4, 1786 in Göttingen , † August 12, 1849 in Pyrmont ) was a German general staff doctor in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

family

Johann Georg was a grandson of the Göttingen mayor Ernst August Spangenberg and the third oldest of ten children of Professor Georg August Spangenberg († March 4, 1806) and the poet Dorothea Katharina Elisabeth Wehrs (pseudonym Aemilia or Dorothea Wehrs ; † June 18, 1808). Just like his brothers Georg August Spangenberg junior and Ernst Peter Johann Spangenberg , Johann Georg studied at the University of Göttingen.

Career

Although the Spangenberg family was one of the “Göttingen dignitaries”, Johann Georg Spangenberg grew up in ever greater impoverishment, probably caused by an illness in his father. At times there was nothing to eat in the house for days. In 1801, it was not the first time that the young person sent a “shocking cry for help to the state government”. Almost as a child, he himself taught “eight hours a day” to help feed his family. In 1811, after he had matriculated at the University of Göttingen in 1804, he complained about his unhappy youth. The “General Director” Justus Christoph Leist took the place of his father, who died young, for Johann.

Spangenberg worked from 1812 - after support from Karl Gustav Himly - as a private lecturer at the medical faculty of the University of Göttingen ; During this so-called “ French era ” he voluntarily joined the army against Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in the “turning point” of 1813 as a “chief surgeon” .

After taking up the position of Chief Surgeon in Hanover in 1814 , Spangenberg took part in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 .

Excerpt from the city ​​map of Hanover from 1822 with the "military hospital" near the Clevertor

In 1825 Spangenberg was appointed court surgeon in Hanover, and the following year he was a member of the medical authority for the Royal Hanoverian Army and at the same time director of the Hanover School of Surgery . In 1830 Spangenberg became medical advisor, in 1839 General Staff Doctor of the Army and "conductor" of the General Military Hospital in Hanover , which until 1858 was located at Clevertor .

After Spangenberg's elevation to the royal body medic in 1841 and the upper medical college founded in Hanover in 1847 , he was appointed second conductor of the college in 1848.

Tomb in the garden cemetery in Hanover

Johann Georg Spangenberg died at the age of 61 during a spa stay in Bad Pyrmont. His grave can be found in the garden cemetery in Hanover.

student

One of Spangenberg's students was the future surgeon Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer .

Literature (incomplete)

  • Johannes Tütken: Dr. med. Johann Georg Spangenberg. In: Private Lecturers in the Shadow of Georgia Augusta. On the older Privatdozentur (1734 to 1831) , Part 2: Biographical materials on the Privatdozenten in the summer semester of 1812 , Göttingen: Universitäts-Verlag Göttingen, 2005, ISBN 3-938616-14-8 , pp. 553-568; partly online via Google books
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Volume 3: Hannover under the Kurhut 1646–1815 , Hannover: Sponholtz, 1916 (posthumously by his wife A. Rothert; also contains his biography), p. 516
  • Hans Hoffmann: Johann Georg Spangenberg: 1786–1849, doctor and medical officer in Göttingen and Hanover, at the same time the attempt to portray a family of scholars from Lower Saxony , 1975
  • Dirk Böttcher : SPANGENBERG; Johann Georg. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 339.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Spangenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Johannes Tütken: Dr. med. Johann Georg Spangenberg ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, Dirk Böttcher (see literature) mentions the year of birth 1788
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Dirk Böttcher: SPANGENBERG ... (see literature)
  4. ^ Rainer Kasties: Military Hospital Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 443.
personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General staff doctor of the Hanoverian army
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1786 or 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1849
Place of death Bad Pyrmont